Karlheinz Miklin

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Karlheinz Miklin (2006)

Karlheinz Miklin (born November 3, 1946 in Klagenfurt , Carinthia ; † June 15, 2019 ) was one of the most important Austrian jazz musicians ( saxophones , flutes ) of modern jazz , composer and university teacher .

biography

education

Karlheinz Miklin grew up in Bleiburg ( Slovenian Pliberk ), Völkermarkt district , in a musical environment and graduated from the secondary school and conservatory (piano, music composition) in Klagenfurt. In 1970, after completing his studies in history and German at the University of Graz, he was awarded a Mag. Phil. graduated . At the same time he began to study saxophone for jazz at the Graz University of Music in 1966 . He broke off a dissertation in history in 1970 to round off his theoretical music education with a three-year concert tour with “Los Argentinos”, an Argentine show, dance and jazz group. In 1975 he completed his music studies with distinction and was awarded the Ministry of Science's award for this. In the same year Miklin received his first teaching position at the jazz department of the Graz University of Music in the subject of ensemble management .

Working as a musician

Miklin founded his first band in 1978, the Karlheinz Miklin Trio . This group was the most important band in Miklin's oeuvre and one of the oldest ensembles in Austrian jazz. 1984 followed the first of numerous tours with the "Trio Argentina". Miklin proved his versatility in 1985 by performing the TV jazz oratorio “The Holy Grail of Jazz and Joy” by George Gruntz , with Bobby McFerrin and Sheila Jordan , among others . In 1987 Miklin initiated the “Graz Meeting” concert series with over a hundred concerts by international guests with teachers and students from the jazz department of the Graz University of Music.

As a band leader, Miklin has appeared in numerous projects, including with Albert Mangelsdorff , Art Farmer , Horace Parlan , Mel Lewis , Barre Phillips , Chuck Israels , Mark Murphy , Götz Tangerding and Sheila Jordan. In addition to relevant Austrian jazz events (meadows, Jazz Festival Saalfelden , Vienna Jazz Festival , Jazz Herbst Salzburg , Vienna Festival , Bregenz Festival , Styrian Autumn ) Miklin occurred many European jazz festivals ( "Belga Jazz Festival" Brussels, "Mostra de Jazz Europeu" Barcelona, " Umbria Jazz "Perugia," Jazz Jamboree "Warsaw," Summer Nights ", Kiev," Jazz Peak "Sofia," Euro Jazz "Athens) and also toured Asia (" Yatra Jazz Festival "New Delhi, Bombay), Africa (" Standard Bank Jazz Festival "Grahamstown, South Africa), as well as South America (" Patagonia Jazz Festival "Argentina," Cachagua Jazz Festival "Chile). In total, he performed in over 120 cities in 50 countries worldwide.

The Karlheinz Miklin Quartet with Fritz Pauer , Ron McClure and Billy Hart and occasionally Victor Lewis or Adam Nussbaum also existed since 1989 . From this group the trio Miklin - McClure - Hart emerged in 2000.

Teaching

From 1983 to 2000, Miklin was director of the Jazz Institute at the University of Music in Graz, and since 1983 he has been the full professor of the “Saxophone - Jazz” class. In the following years, Miklin worked as a jazz teacher in numerous universities and academies. Among other things, he has given lectures at the universities of Vienna, Graz, Zagreb, Santiago de Chile, and leads masterclasses / workshops at the music academies in Cologne , Weimar , Basel and Bern .

He has also taught at the “Sibelius Academy” Helsinki , the “ Royal Conservatory ” in The Hague , as well as at the Music Academies in Tallinn , Riga and Katowice . His knowledge of Spanish also enables him to teach classes at the “Escuela Superior de Catalunya” in Barcelona and the “Escola Superior de Artes” in Porto , as well as the “Centro Cultural” in Buenos Aires . In the USA he taught at Berklee College in Boston , at the New School in New York and at Cornish College in Seattle .

Since 1992 Miklin has been an Associate Jazz Artist at the Royal Academy of Music in London . From 2003 to 2012 Miklin was Chairman of the International Association of Schools of Jazz based in The Hague , from 2003 to 2010 he was Vice-chairman of the Advisory Board of the European Jazz Youth Orchestra based in Denmark .

Karlheinz Miklin lived in Graz. He died on June 15, 2019 after his second stroke . He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz . His son, the drummer Karlheinz Miklin Jr. , is also known as a jazz musician.

Awards

In 1983 and 1984, Miklin was named Austrian Jazz Musician of the Year in “Jazz Live” polls. In 2000 he received the “Great Josef Krainer Prize ”. In 2007 he was awarded the “ Federal Badge of Honor ” by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture for outstanding achievements in the field of cultural work, and in 2008 the Karl Böhm Interpretation Prize , which he received as the first jazz musician. The federal state of Styria awarded him the Great Golden Decoration in 2011.

Bands

Karlheinz Miklin Trio

Instrumentation:
Karlheinz Miklin: saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Ewald Oberleitner: bass
Karlheinz Miklin Jr .: drums

The trio was founded in 1978 with Ewald Oberleitner on bass and Brüning von Alten on drums. Despite the lack of a pianist or guitarist, the rehearsal work showed that a new, independent sound was created, which soon received widespread recognition from the public and the press. After a successful international debut at the Belgrade Jazz Festival in 1981 (on a stage with Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie , among others ), the breakthrough in Austria also took place at festivals such as Wiesen (Burgenland) , Saalfelden , Vienna Jazz Festival , Bregenz Festival and Styrian Autumn .
With Ewald Oberleitner and a changing line-up on drums, the group has since played at numerous jazz festivals around the world. The trio celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2003 with many festival
appearances in Padua , Pančevo , Trencin and Leibnitz, among others . In 2004 festivals such as “ Sofia Jazz Peak”, “Euro Jazz 2004” Athens , “Jazz at Niuporc” Bergamo and the Salzburg Jazz Autumn followed , in 2005 a tour of Turkey (festivals Izmir and Ankara ) and the festival in Kiev .

Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina

Instrumentation:
Karlheinz Miklin: saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Hernan Jacinto: piano
Marcelo Mayor: guitar
Alejandro Herrera: bass
Pocho Lapouble: drums
Mario Gusso: percussion

Karlheinz Miklin began while working for the show and dance band "Los Argentinos" (1970 to 1973), with which he financed his studies, to understand the Spanish language and especially Latin American music. As a jazz musician, he was invited to festivals in Argentina in 1984 . There he got to know the most important musicians and invited the "Trio Argentina" (Jorge Navarro, Alfredo Remus, Pocho Lapouble) to Austria. This first tour was so successful that there were concerts in Europe first annually, then every two years.

Over the years the trio was first expanded to a quartet (with percussionist Cacho Tejera ), and from 1988 to "Quinteto Argentina" (with Ricardo Lew on guitar). Since 1999 Miklin and the "Quinteto" have been working with big bands again and again .

In Europe, the group has performed at the “Belga Jazz” festivals in Brussels , “Jazz Fair” Zagreb , “ Jazzmeile Thuringia ” ( Weimar ), “Graz Meeting” and “music minds” Linz . Karlheinz Miklin also performs regularly in South America with the quinteto and has achieved some popularity in Argentina, which has become a kind of second home for him. TV recordings, festivals such as “Patagonia Jazz Festival”, “Ciclo de Jazz” Buenos Aires, La Plata or “Encuentros” Santiago de Chile were among the highlights.

Miklin - McClure - Hard

Instrumentation:
Karlheinz Miklin: saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Ron McClure: bass
Billy Hart: drums

Karlheinz Miklin, Ron McClure and Billy Hart have been working together regularly since 1987, mostly in a quartet with Harry Pepl and then with Fritz Pauer for the first few years . From 2000 they did without a harmony instrument in order to achieve a new, stringent sound.

During the tour in April 2004, appearances were made in New York City and Washington, among others .

Others

To celebrate his 70th birthday, Karlheinz Miklin performed on November 5, 2016 together with the Jauntaler Trachtenkapelle Loibach under the motto Jazz meets brass music in the Bleiburger Grenzlandheim.

Discography (excerpts)

ANIVERSARIO Sketches from Illyro-Argentina
  • Nicos Jaritz Sextet feat. Karlheinz Miklin Trio Macumba (1981)
  • Karlheinz Miklin Trio Pick Up (1981)
  • Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina Malambo Blue (1990)
  • Looking Back (with Albert Mangelsdorff, Sheila Jordan, Horace Parlan , Harry Pepl, Barre Phillips et al., Rec. 1987–1993, 1994)
  • Karlheinz Miklin Quartet Decisions (1995)
  • Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina El Viejo - To the Roots and Back (1996)
  • 1997 Karlheinz Miklin Quartet Last Waltz (1997, with Fritz Pauer, Ron McClure, Adam Nussbaum )
  • 1998 Karlheinz Miklin Trio We've Only Just Begun
  • Karlheinz Miklin Trio 2000 Live '98 (2000, with Ewald Oberleitner, Heimo Wiederhofer )
  • Echoes of Illyra (2001)
  • Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina & KUG Big Band Linda (2001)
  • Karlheinz Miklin - Ron McClure - Billy Hart From Here To There (2002)
  • Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina & KUG Big Band Graz Hora Cero (2004)
  • Karlheinz Miklin - Ron McClure - Billy Hart In Between (2005)
  • Karlheinz Miklin & Quinteto Argentina ANIVERSARIO Sketches from Illyro-Argentina (2006, with Gustavo Bergalli , Marcelo Mayor, Alejandro Herrera, Pocho Lapouble, Pocho Porteño)
  • family affair (2008)
  • Mark Murphy featuring Karlheinz Miklin & Fritz Pauer Shadows (rec. 1997, 2014, with Ewald Oberleitner and Dusan Novakov )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. The jazz world mourns Karlheinz Miklin . In: diepresse.com, June 16, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  3. a b Homepage Karlheinz Miklin , accessed on June 16, 2019.
  4. a b Jazz musician Karlheinz Miklin has died . In: kaernten.orf.at, June 16, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  5. Rosina Katz-Logar: Karlheinz Miklin: "I like coming to Bleiburg" . In: kleinezeitung.at, August 7, 2016, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  6. ^ Völkermarkt: Karlheinz Miklin celebrated in STEP . In: kleinezeitung.at, April 28, 2018, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  7. Half a century of the Graz Jazz Institute . In: steiermark.orf.at, April 21, 2015, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  8. ^ Austrian jazz musician Karlheinz Miklin has died . In: tt.com, June 16, 2019, accessed June 16, 2019.
  9. Karlheinz Miklin. In: trauer.kleinezeitung.at. June 19, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  10. Karl Böhm Interpretation Prize 2008 to Karlheinz Miklin . In: kug.ac.at, December 17, 2008, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  11. Karlheinz Miklin received a large gold medal from the Province of Styria
  12. Karlheinz Miklin celebrates 30 years of Quinteto Argentina (Concerto)
  13. Homepage Jauntaler Trachtenkapelle Loibach , accessed on June 16, 2019.
  14. Sandra Tatschl: Rock'n Roll meets Schlager . In: kleinezeitung.at, November 4, 2016, accessed on June 16, 2019.
  15. Brass band as a jazz orchestra . In: kleinezeitung.at, November 10, 2016, accessed on June 16, 2019.